Quotes from Melody Carlson

If you want to have a good friend, you first must be a good friend.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.

Your kids ever act like that? Tim laughed. Come on, man, I'm a pastor. My kids were perfect.

Don't worry about how bad things look right now. It's all going to fall into place. You'll see.

Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.

New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.

I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

What if?.. What if I am all to see? What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss? What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday And there is no better way? What then?